Oral history interview with Kanita Boone, 2019

Biographical Note

Kanita Boone was raised in Marlborough, NY. She works as a police officer in North Carolina

Scope and Contents

Kanita Boone discusses her perspective on social inequality, race and personal agency as they impact Black Americans' interactions with law enforcement, the prison system and crime. She talks about her reasons for joining the police force and her desire to make a difference in her community. She speaks to the range of class and economic experiences in the young people she has encountered who later are encarcerated. Kanita describes the community engagement work that she has started on her own to support youth, as well as her role as a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) officer. She also speaks to the impact of sports on her childhood, placing an emphasis on the importance of teamwork, and how this lead to her coaching youth league basketball

Subjects

• Boone, Kanita--Interviews.
• Boone, Kurt B., interviewer.
• Communities--Effect of drugs on.
• Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
• Families, Black--Effect of imprisonment on.
• Interviews.
• Mass incarceration--United States.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Police, Black--United States.
• Police--Interviews.
• Police--United States.
• Police-community relations--United States.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Kanita Boone. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York hold a non-exclusive license to enable library activities